Author: Turner, John Frayn,
Title: SERVICE MOST SILENT - The [Royal] Navy's Fight against Enemy Mines.
Description: Pen and Sword Maritime, Barnsley, 2008, 1st in imprint, 200pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, first published by George Harrap in 1955 a re-issue of the story of the department of the Royal Navy responsible for Rendering Mines Safe (RMS), work essential so as to discover how they worked and thus adapt or devise sweeping methods, with details of their work on defusing mines dropped on land and an appendix of 40 personnel decorated for their work on 'rendering mines safe', fine in a fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 navy mine rms hms vernon disposal minesweeper intelligence research rnps rendering safe


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